Into the Deep, 2025. Linocut, silver leaf on washi paper, organza with two-channel sound (7 minutes looped). 350(h) x 300(w) x 600(d) cm.

Latrobe Regional Gallery, Victoria. 5 July – 28 September 2025

Sound Designer and Composer Erasmus Toscano
Hydrophone Collaborator Geoff Robinson
Curatorial Team Mollie Hewitt and Andrew Nicholls

Sound recordings were captured as part of a supported residency through the Monmar Police Point Artist in Residence Program run by Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Mornington Peninsula Shire.

“In an age of hyper-visibility, the deep ocean is resistant to our usual ways of seeing, with more than 80% of our oceans yet to be mapped, explored or even seen by humans. ‘Into the Deep’ is a new large-scale installation that reflects on the fragility of our deepest waters.”

– Bridget Hillebrand

“Through refracted light and shifting shadows the work shimmers, plays. It is animal, plant, rock and water. It is the outside and the inside body. Like water, it slips between and beyond boundaries, resisting classification.”

– Penelope Gebhardt (Excerpt from catalogue essay)

“Into the Deep is a monumental installation by interdisciplinary artist Bridget Hillebrand that is shaped by her ongoing concern for ecological shifts that occur beneath the ocean’s surface… The work invites reflection on our emotional and ethical relationships with the unseen: what does it mean to care for something we cannot touch, measure, or fully know?”

– Mollie Hewitt (Excerpt from gallery didactic)